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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Oslo, Norway.
(d) Brooklyn, New York.

2. What is the atomic number of uranium?
(a) 96.
(b) 72.
(c) 180.
(d) 92.

3. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Communist Party.
(b) The Republican Party.
(c) The Labor Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

4. To where did Knut Haukelid take a train following the bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Oslo.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

5. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?
(a) 1 out of 130.
(b) 1 out of 300.
(c) 1 out of 50.
(d) 1 out of 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. When General Groves first met with the Uranium Committee members in Chicago, how much uranium did they tell him it would take to make an atomic bomb?

2. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?

3. How many barrels of heavy water were loaded onto the ferry to be transported from the Vemork plant when Haukelid rigged a bomb on the ferry?

4. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?

5. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

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